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Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He was the creator and host of the television variety program Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-runni…
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culture · American host and columnist (1901–1974) · television presenter · screenwriter · journalist · presenter · writer · also Ed Sullivan, Edward Vincent Sullivan, Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan, Sullivan
Born 28 September 1901 · Died 13 October 1974 · Q83807
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As a Catholic, it was inevitable that I would despise intolerance, because Catholics suffered more than their share of it. As I grew up, the causes of minorities were part and parcel of me. Negroes and Jews were the minority causes closest at hand. I need no urging to take a plunge in and help.
“As a Catholic, it was inevitable that I would despise intolerance, because Catholics suffered more than their share of it. As I grew up, the causes of minorities were part and parcel of me. Negroes and Jews were the minority causes closest at hand. I need no urging to take a plunge in and help.”
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American Songwriter: 3 Underrated ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ Performances That Aren’t The Beatles
Sullivan was welcomed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Yahoo: Ed Sullivan Theater’s Next Act: What Comes After Colbert’s Cancellation?
Yahoo! Sports: Ed Sullivan's new Netflix documentary takes a deeper look into his start as a sportswriter
BroadwayWorld: THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW Reaches One Million Subscribers on YouTube
Yahoo: 7 Best Performances From ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’
Snopes.com rated the claim “In 1967, folk-rock group The Mamas & The Papas were forced to lip-sync their song "California Dreamin'" on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and rebelled by making this obvious to viewers.” Unproven.
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American Songwriter: Remember When the Beatles First Appeared on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’
Forbes: Ed Sullivan’s History Making TV Moments Now Reaching New Audiences Through Streaming
BroadwayWorld: THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW Launches Exclusive Channel On Pluto TV
Awarded Online Film & Television Association Award (2012).
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Snopes rated the claim “During the Beatles' first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', crime rates plummeted all over the U.S.” False.
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Sullivan was ranked number 50 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time"
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Sullivan was welcomed to the Television Academy Hall of Fame
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That Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: "Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful
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Died 1974-10-13.
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At Mount Sinai Hospital from a ruptured aorta
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Awarded Trustees Award (1971).
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Sullivan rented a suite next door to the family suite, which he used as an office until The Ed Sullivan Show was canceled in 1971.
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Sullivan presented the Jackson 5 with their first single "I Want You Back", which ousted Thomas' song from the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100
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Was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater (and was later the home of the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)
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20 years after his show's debut, Time magazine asked, "What exactly is Ed Sullivan's talent
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When Mick Jagger was told to change the titular lyric of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's spend some time together"
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David Crosby got into a shouting match with the show's director
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Was the most-watched program in TV history to that point
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Sullivan substituted for Red Skelton on The Red Skelton Show
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Won Golden Globe Awards for The Ed Sullivan Show (1959).
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Sullivan appeared on What's My Line
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Sullivan was in an automobile accident that broke several ribs, and knocked out his teeth, changing his appearance
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Sullivan signed him for three appearances
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Actress Ingrid Bergman was planning a return to Hollywood with the film Anastasia after living in exile in Europe since 1950 in the wake of her scandalous love affair with director Roberto Rossellini
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In 1956 Sullivan was in an automobile accident that broke several ribs, and knocked out his teeth, changing his appearance.
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Rock 'n' roll singer and guitarist Bo Diddley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, only to infuriate Sullivan
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Was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show
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Stated that Sullivan resembled "a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island
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Sullivan appeared as a cohost on the television musical special General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein
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In 1952, Betty Sullivan married the Ed Sullivan Show's producer, Bob Precht.
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Betty Sullivan married the Ed Sullivan Show's producer, Bob Precht
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“Kirkpatrick has sat in my living room on several occasions and listened attentively to performers eager to secure a certification of loyalty.”
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Producer Marlo Lewis convinced CBS to hire Sullivan to host a weekly Sunday-night television variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show
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After living at the Hotel Astor on Times Square for many years
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Sullivan became host of the Summer Silver Theater, a variety program on CBS, with Will Bradley as bandleader and a guest star featured each week
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Sullivan wrote and starred in the film Mr
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When Walter Winchell moved to The Daily Mirror, Sullivan was named the New York Evening Graphic's Broadway columnist
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Sullivan joined The New York Evening Graphic, first as a sports writer and then as a sports editor
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Sullivan met and began dating Sylvia Weinstein
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Bounced through a series of news jobs with the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Bulletin, The Morning World, The Morning Telegraph, The New York Bulletin and The Leader
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Joined The Hartford Post, but the newspaper folded in his first week there
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In Harlem, New York City, to Elizabeth F
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Born 1901-09-28.
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